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Zimbabwe doctors, nurses milking patients through syndicates
The Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe is taking stern action against laboratory professionals who are collaborating with health workers in public institution...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:25hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Hubby attacks wife with an axe handle over shoe laces
Failure to control temper landed a Plumtree man in the hands of the police after he attacked his wife with an axe handle over shoe laces.Culture W Ncube (35) was dragged to Plumtree magistrate...Published: 28 Mar 2024 at 10:47hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Sikhala still undergoing treatment'
FORMER opposition Zengeza West legislator, Job Sikhala, is still undergoing treatment at a medical centre overseas after experiencing a running stomach and passing bloody stool due to suspected poison...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala confirms prison cell poisoning
Sikhala, the opposition activist recently released after spending 595 days in pretrial detention, has confirmed that he was poisoned during his time in solitary confinement at Chikurubi Maximum Prison...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak fear grips Kwekwe
THE death of an 18-year-old male in Kwekwe from a suspected case of cholera on Saturday has left the gold mining city gripped with fears of a cholera outbreak, this publication reports.The cou...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 05:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa invites SADC to apply pressure
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has made fresh calls, while also calling upon regional leaders to facilitate for the release of fellow party executive and lawyer J...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 18:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa calls for Sikhala's release
Nelson Chamisa, leader of of the Citizens Coalition for Change has called for the immediate release of Job Sikhala.Sikhala has reportedly fallen ill in Zimbabwe’s most feared Chikurubi Maxim...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 14:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes stepfather
A 38-YEAR-OLD Plumtree is in soup after he assaulted his stepfather with a burning log after accusing him of not taking good care of his children.The matter came to light at Plumtree magistrat...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chitungwiza residents resort to bucket toilet system
The bulk of Chitungwiza residents have been forced to resort to the bucket toilet system as council struggles to bring a permanent solution to sewage and water reticulaion problems affecting most part...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dark trail
CorruptionAs for the optics and visuals, you wouldn't say President Emmerson Mnangagwa - where corruption is concerned - has disappointed.During the hot days - months before the late R...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:33hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Fake booze booms in Zimbabwe
Inside a grimy, poorly lit room in Mbare, one of Zimbabwe's most populous townships, a 45-year-old man sits on a makeshift stool as he pours a brownish liquid into small bottles.An alcoholic s...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 20:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official arrested
A former Zanu-PF youth leader was arrested and another man shot dead – both suspects after a Shurugwi mine was robbed of 400kg of crushed gold ore.Khumbulani Mpofu, 42, is being held with fi...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 15:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by on Saturday
Bulawayo's diarrhoea outbreak worsens
Bulawayo has recorded 1,200 diarrhoea cases following at outbreak of the disease in July, council officials have confirmed.The first cases of diarrhoea were recorded in the Pumula surburb and ...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Bulawayo
A vicious diarrhoea outbreak has hit Bulawayo suburbs with more than 1 000 cases recorded so far.Cases in the latest outbreak were first recoded in the city’s Ward 17 in Pumula suburb ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:41hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo diarrhoea cases increase
BULAWAYO has recorded an increase in the number of diarrhoea cases, a cause for concern considering the havoc wrecked by the disease previously.Diarrhoea is defined as the passage of three or ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's failure centres around you, Your Excellency
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, a sage stated that a carpenter whose only tool is a hammer is an unproductive craftsman. He cannot produce a basic stool, given that his only...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:06hrs | 8 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya
Man kills girlfriend over infidelity
HIGH Court judge, Justice David Foroma, has caged a Bindura man, Brian Chikanya, 20 years for murdering his girlfriend in cold blood over infidelity allegations.Chikanya killed his girlfriend,...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
CCC duo reveal abduction ordeal
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have revealed horrific accounts of torture, including being forced to sing war songs and drink each other's urine by th...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Father and son in court for attempted murder
A-FATHER and son today appeared before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda facing attempted murder charges.Simiao (father) and Charles (son) Sixpence were remanded in custody until March 16, 2022....Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dysentery hits Tshabalala suburb
BULAWAYO's Tshabalala Extension suburb has reportedly been hit by a dysentery outbreak at a time when residents are being tormented by diarrhoea.The diarrhoea outbreak recently claimed the lif...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt wants to appear wealthy 'Mbinga' in the eyes of the world, yet can't even feed own children!
So, the Zimbabwe government is up to no good - again! I am sure we have all come across (at least once, in our lives) that guy who wants to appear wealthy in the eyes of the community - shops ...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Every child must at one stage stay at grandmother’s home
The eldest of us was Tapfuma, whose eggshell head made him look awkward. In our hierarchy Tapfuma was followed by me and then Obedience, a tall slim boy full of humour. The rest were toddlers. We so l...Published: 08 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Man kicks pregnant daughter to death
Discipline gone wrong? A Binga man was so angry when he discovered his teenage daughter was pregnant that he kicked her in the stomach leading to her death. A court has since sentenced him to ...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man beats friend to death in vicious age dispute
A LUPANE man beat his friend to death following an argument on who was older between the two, a court heard.Levison Luphahla (32) of Geleza village was incensed by Khumbulani Tshuma (30)'s ins...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 16:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid 19, a blessing in disguise for despots and strongmen
The coming of a pandemic which Donald Trump, the former President of United States of America , referred to as 'Chinese Disease' has caused panic ar...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 20:14hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
WATCH: Sewerage horror for Nkulumane granny
GOGO Minah Sibanda (74), of 1552 Nkulumane suburb is living on a health time bomb as a sewerage manhole that is located right next to the door behind her house spills regularly and has not been attend...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
China introduces anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections
BEIJING - Some Chinese cities are using samples taken from the anus to detect potential COVID-19 infections as China steps up screening to make sure no potential carrier of the new coronavirus is miss...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 10:11hrs | | by Reuters
BCC public toilets are a horrible health hazard
Bulawayo City Council public toilets are a horrible health hazard, especially the one in Lobengula Street where people board the so-called ZUPCO buses to the high-density suburbs. I could not ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Clemen Moyo
Inside Bulawayo's worsening water crisis
It is 6am on a Saturday and residents of Sizinda, a poor suburb in Bulawayo, have begun their desperate hunt for water.The taps at home dried up three months ago.Water has become a dai...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Democracy dies in darkness
Democracy is facing tough time in Zimbabwe,it is wilting, suffocating and profusely bleeding.Infact it's wasting away- dying in full view of a public that couldn't care less.A public that is p...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Taruberekera Masara
Moyo grovels at Chiwenga
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo heaped praise on VicePresident Constantino Chiwenga, describing him as the most suitable person to run the Health ministry despite fears that he was militarising th...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The mystic African kitchen hut
If it's not a grass thatched brick and mortar hut, it's not the traditional African kitchen. The African woman is incomplete without a round kitchen hut. Times gone, the floors would have a co...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
EXCLUSIVE: 'Energy Mutodi was poisoned'
Former Information Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi was poisoned sources have revealed. A driver who used to work for the former Minister confirmed that he frequented an upmarket Borrowdale healt...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 15 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
'Evangelist' hit with sodomy rap over alleged assault on 6-year-old boy
A self-proclaimed evangelist was charged with indecent assault on Monday, accused of sickening sodomy attack on a six-year-old boy.Prosper Kamuchira, of Budiriro, pleaded not guilty when he ap...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Electricity cuts, lifestyles and modified behaviour in Zimbabwe
Electricity and access to it is a big issue in Zimbabwe at the moment. Not least by admission of our own government, but more importantly by the lived realities of many urban-based Zimbabweans, civil ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Sandra Ndebele fraudster's property auctioned
'GOD fights my battles' are the words that dancer-cum-singer Sandra 'Sandy' Ndebele-Sibindi said after the Sheriff of the High Court last week auctioned property belonging to a woman who defrauded her...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hwange diarrhoea outbreak cause still unknown
THE cause of diarrhoea that led to more than 200 residents including schoolchildren in Empumalanga's suburb in Hwange being taken ill recently has remained a mystery after tests carried out so far fai...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Harare
An outbreak of diarrhoea has been reported in parts of Harare's Glen View, Budiriro and Glen Norah suburbs where over 22 people, mostly children, have been affected by the disease. The three h...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana's elephants: myths vs facts
Botswana president, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi, recently hosted a summit in Kasane for five southern African heads of state to forge a common regional elephant conservation policy. Since Masisi took over it...Published: 23 May 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Conservation Action Trust
Of heroes betrayed, forgotten
When, in the fullness of time, the lies can hold no longer, when the frail bottom of deception falls off, when the foggy morning dew of orchestrated media smokescreens withers and gives way to the pow...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Chamisa secures Mudzuri's backing
MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri will not be contesting Nelson Chamisa for the top party office as had been widely expected, after the two politicians agreed to work together to reduce tensions in ...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi goes berserk, attacks former wife with an axe
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi yesterday allegedly attacked his estranged former wife using an axe to break doors and threatened to shoot her in a dispute over property.The enraged VP raided sena...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Gweru in typhoid scare
A TYPHOID fever scare has rattled the densely-populated Mkoba suburb in Gweru, with 19 new suspected cases reported at health centres in the city, council has confirmed.Mkoba was hit by a typhoid ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
56 pupils eat jatropha fruits, hospitalised
FIFTY-SIX Grade Four pupils from Sigombe Primary School in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb have been hospitalised with one reported to be in a criticial condition at Mpilo Central Hospital after eating po...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:52hrs | | by Satff reporter
Malema should mind his own business
Following the three-day protest stay away, which was ostensibly given as meant to register disquiet over the prevailing economic challenges, the South African controversial Economic Freedom Fighters (...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Bulawayo loses property worth millions to violent protests
BUSINESSES in Bulawayo lost goods and property worth millions of dollars after violent protestors went on a looting spree and in some cases torched the buildings after looting. Supermarkets, s...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
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